eternising

Updated: May 13, 2025

Among the illustrious popes there has not been one that did not seek to build, did not revert to the traditions of the Caesars, eternising their reigns in stone and raising temples for resting-places, so as to rank among the gods.

Émile Zola - The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 2

Among the illustrious popes there has not been one that did not seek to build, did not revert to the traditions of the Caesars, eternising their reigns in stone and raising temples for resting-places, so as to rank among the gods.

Émile Zola - The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Complete

So many great names, so many famous victories and conquests drowned and swallowed in oblivion, render our hopes ridiculous of eternising our names by the taking of half-a-score of light horse, or a henroost, which only derives its memory from its ruin.

Michel de Montaigne - The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 05

Among the illustrious popes there has not been one that did not seek to build, did not revert to the traditions of the Caesars, eternising their reigns in stone and raising temples for resting-places, so as to rank among the gods.

Émile Zola - The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete: Lourdes, Rome and Paris